Embracing the Long View: Kay Walkingstick’s Winter Sun

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Winter Sun by Ms. WalkingStick. Its vibrant colors capture a late winter’s afternoon at the Grand Canyon with touches of snow clinging along the side of some canyon walls. Moreover, like the expansive canyon itself, Winter Sun, is a diptych, a two-panel work of oil on wood panel. WalkingStick’s diptych is a substantive 30 by 60 ins. and invites the viewer to contemplate the concept of time, both in terms of the earth’s history but also one’s own individual history. Awe and reverence are readily accessed when engaging with WalkingStick’s painting of this extraordinary landscape.